Warriors news: Steve Kerr says team is average at passing fundamentals

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr isn't sitting on his laurels and has even found an area of their game that could use some improvement.

Over the last few seasons, the Golden State Warriors have developed into the standard bearer offensively in the NBA.

Much of this has been fueled by their unselfish play on that end of the floor that head coach Steve Kerr recently told Carl Steward of The Mercury News that he believes they are the best team in the league in that regard but also pointed out that they are an average passing team.

“I would say we’re the most unselfish team around, but we’re probably an average passing team as far as fundamentals,” he said. “Our guys see everything – they move, they pass, they cut, they are totally unselfish. But you can see on tape a lot a guy will catch the ball and it’s at his shoelaces instead of in his shooting pocket. There’s a dramatic difference in makes and misses when you make a bad pass or a good pass.”

There may a lot of credence to what Kerr is stating in terms of the location of the passes, but the court vision and unselfish play are what separates them from the rest of the league. The addition of Kevin Durant has only further emphasized that as they led the league in assists, which included dishing out 30 or more assists a franchise-best 50 times and were 49-1 in those games.

This is only further extenuated by the fact that no other team in the league had more than 18 such games last season. The Warriors also recorded 35 assists on 18 occasions and had registered 40 or more assists three times including a franchise-record 47 assists against the Los Angeles Lakers.

With all that in mind, it makes it extremely difficult to label the Warriors as an average passing team. This may just be another method in which Steve Kerr is looking for additional ways to keep the Warriors on the edge this upcoming season.